Minecraft Rants

For the first time in years, I've been properly committed to a survival world. Me and a friend have been playing it a lot, and I can see an ever-growing problem in Minecraft with its passive mobs. And with at least three more passive mobs on the horizon for 1.17, and many more in the biome vote pipelines, I think this problem is only going to get worse with time. This has been an issue since about 2016. That's around when they started adding lots of random real-life animals for the sake of it. Other than the OG passive mobs like pigs, cows, chickens, horses and donkeys, most passive mobs in Minecraft don't really add much and feel like they're there for the sake of more mobs. The last real-life animal mob I'd consider truly useful was the Rabbit in 2014. It is also the last new animal mob to drop meat before Minecraft was sold to Microsoft and went all vegan. What's infuriating though is that they TRIED to give some of these mobs a use... but none of these uses ...

Ask anyone what their least favourite mob in Minecraft is. Most players who have played for more than three years will say "the phantom". Ask someone what they voted for in MineCon Live 2017 and they'll say one of two things: "I voted mob A/C/D, but that stupid phantom won. Worst choice ever" or "I voted mob B, the phantom, and seriously regret it. Worst choice ever".  Look at any mob ranking or tiering video or post, phantoms are at the bottom tier or last ranked.  The phantom is the mob we all love to hate. The phantom is the epitome of bad game design. The phantom is super annoying and gamebreakingly bad to the point Mojang added an option on the menu to disable phantoms spawning . The phantom needs to die and never come back. The phantom was added in 2018. Now let's imagine the phantom had been added in 2009, by Notch himself, alongside skeletons, zombies and creepers. Would people still hate the phantom?  Don't get me wrong, the phantom IS...

Hello all and welcome to my new Blog. I am a die-hard Minecraft fan and have played the game since August 2012. At the time I jumped on the bandwagon, I was considered "late to the party", catching the tail end of the first generation of fans. Over the years, I have seen many generations of fans and developers, and I now realize that even though I missed the official release, I am a very late first-generation fan. I remember when Minecraft parodies on YouTube were big, the Yogscast were still big, adventure maps were big, and there was no Wither. Just.  I started playing two weeks before they added the Wither to 1.4 snapshots. But I didn't play snapshots then, as you had to download them into your Java folder. There was no launcher back then. I had to play on Minecraft.net. Is that where you draw the line between gen 1 and gen 2?  In the 8 years I have played Minecraft, I have followed the updates very closely, always hopping onto the snapshots as soon as they dropped. Th...